The environmental crisis clock pointed to 9:31 this year getting even closer to 12 O'clock which signifies the time when 'human survival is impossible'. With awareness of the environmental crisis rising, so are the interests and awareness of individua...
The environmental crisis clock pointed to 9:31 this year getting even closer to 12 O'clock which signifies the time when 'human survival is impossible'. With awareness of the environmental crisis rising, so are the interests and awareness of individuals towards environmentally friendly aspects, and various measures are being drawn up and implemented in each field. The field of design generally expresses and develops such aspects as environmentally friendly design, green design, eco-design, and sustainable design etc.
Sustainable design is an environmentally friendly design concept that appeared in the 21st century along with the appearance of the LOHAS(Lifestyle of Health and Sustainability) class and based on the trends of environmental awareness.
Studies on environmentally friendly fashion focused mostly around the ecology concept of the late 20thcentury with themes such as hippy, ethnic, naturalism, and the recycling of green design, and studies on the slow life tendencies and wellbeing fashion have taken place since then.
As such, though there exist preceding studies on environmentally friendly design and fashion, the forms of expression is changing with the flow of age and studies on the environmentally friendly design (which is based on circular -ity and Sustainability) of 21st century lacking real condition be since wellbing fashion.
In this situation, this study will establish the concept and developments of environmentally friendly design, awareness of which is increasing, and study how these factors are affecting the modern world of design and fashion. The study will then go on to propose ways to increase the life span of products over its life cycle-the entire process of the product from production and use to disuse- and to implement actual functionalistic and recycling practices based on such environmentally friendly design in the 21st century, which emphasizes the preservation and cycle of nature and the environment.
To do so, related literature and precedent studies from abroads well as information from the internet were used to scrutinize research on the concept and characteristics of environmentally friendly design and to divide it into four expressed forms for studying the theoretical background. The trends were analyzed in recently announced fashion work based on the development and flow of environmentally friendly fashion, and the characteristics found in their form, materials and techniques were studied to design and create 8 articles of women's clothing.
The conclusions obtained through this theory study are as follows.
First, the practice of environmentally friendly design cannot be achieved by certain classes who are aware making efforts but by the consumer, producer, government, and social organizations all working together throughout the entire process of production, consumption, and disuse so that a cycle in which the life span of a product is lengthened, and products are circulated instead of being thrown away after using once is established. Also, along with the environmentally friendly element, the flowing society·ethical consciousness must come to foundation fundamentally.
Second, environmentally friendly design can be expressed as Classic & simple in terms of Reduced Design, as Reuse & Recycle in terms of Re-design, as Multi functional and Multi styling in terms of Transformable, and through Future-Eco materials as trend of materials to be expressed through various techniques in fashion design.
The conclusions that get through work manufacture based on this are as follows.
First, I could maximize the environmentally friendly consciousness by applying the concept of environmentally friendly design and the characteristics of forms, and accomplished the spread of expression area in futuristic and reasonable design.
Second, It was possible to express not limited to the environmentally friendly fashion of the ecru-vintage concept but stylish and futuristic designs through unbalanced cuts and handcraft work as patchwork and quilting with new design materials gained through recycling main labels discarded upon production, pieces of material left after cutting of bulk production, decorative ribbons thrown away during everyday life etc., as well as future eco-materials.
Third, It was identified that expressing environmentally friendly design concept to decrease environmental pollution is source of fashion design to give characteristic and new aesthetic value, through presenting message of recycling when disuse clothes by pattern design detail which is possible to reconstruct another style of clothes, or making it possible to multi styling with one clothes to lengthen the life span of a product with reversible material and structural characteristic of clothes.
Thus, by recognizing and practicing type of environmentally friendly design, application possibility of modern fashion design as unique, practical and environment-conscious expression is identified through deviate from general common idea which is organic cotton material or recycled clothes.
And it is my sincere hope that efficient and creative methods that can apply sustainable design to fashion design will be constantly developed through multi faceted research and analysis on sustainable design as well as in depth studies in connection with other industries or artistic fields.